Making of the photo "Closing Out" by Erik Johansson

12/09/2014 Matt 0 Comments

Behind the scenes video of the making of the photo Closing Out by Erik Johansson. From sketch to final image in 97 seconds. See the final image

Erik Johansson explains:

I wanted to create a world between outside and inside and somehow let them meet. I had this idea for quite some time now but it was not until this year that I decided to actually make it come to life. I always try to capture as much as possible in camera, it’s much easier to make it look realistic that way. For this piece I decided to have my sisters sheeps as models (Tore, Birgit and Ull-Rik) and I knew that I wanted to shoot the outdoor part of the photo in an real outdoor environment. I just took some wood boards, old paint buckets and an old Elinchrom D-lite flash with a powergenerator to the pretty massive pen where the sheeps live. I was afraid that I wouldn’t get a chance to shoot them but they were very curious what was going out in their other pretty ordinary day. At first looking from a distance but after a while they were running around all over. I got a few nice shots of them and those were the ones I used in the final image.

Check out my website to see more of his work: erikjohanssonphoto.com

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